The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31


excess at such times and are supposed to be
injurious.
SEVENTEEN persons were drowned in the
Thames mud, below London bridge, by the
giving way of the tarpaulin-cover of a hay
laden barge.
ALL the lecture engagements of Archi-
bald Forbes the war correspondent, in this
country are being cancelled on account of
his failing health
county, ILL.,, found box of dynamite in a
fence corner. 1t exploded and killed him
when he opened it.
A LETTER has been received from DR..
Parke, dated Aruwmi, June 20, stating that
Stanley and all of the Europeans comprised
in his party are well.
ADvIcEs from sixty different points in
Manitoba report the wheat crop throughout
the province as between twenty-five and
thirty bushels per acre.
THE fugitive president and cashier of the
First National Bank of Burlington, Col,
who fled fortnight ago with $4,000, have
been caught at Kansas City.
THE time allowed under the law for the
redemption of trade-dollars will expire Sep
temlrer Sd. The amount redeemed up to
date is little over S7,400,000
c. e. BARTLETT, cashier of the Sumter
National Bank at Sumter, S. c., has dis
appeared with about $500 in gold. He is
defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
The missing boat of the burned steam
ship " City of Montreal was picked up by
German bark and landed at Falmouth,
England. The eleven inmates were all saved.
THE Herdld newspaper building in Mon
treal was burned Friday night. Three COM
postors are supposed to have lost their
lives. The damage will be half a million
dollars.
THE Cologne Gazette says that public
opinion in Russia is highly suspicious of
Germany. and that the strained relations
between the two countries is due to this
popular antipathy.
THE Gladstone resolution concerning the
proclamation of the National League was
defeated in the house of commons on Fri
day by a vote of two hundred seventy-tw o
to one hundred ninety-four.
AFLoATING exhibition of Spanish products
will shortly leave Valencia for South Amer
lea, and will visit all the principal South
American seaportS. The object is to open
new markets for Spanish goods.
EVIDENCE is appearing tending to show
that the plan to wreck train at Elm Park,
Mo-, just before the close of the great rail
road strike last year, was sanctioned by the
officers of the knights of Labor.
News received at San Francisco in
dicates that the boat-loads of men from the
bark " Napoleon" supposed to have been
wrecked on the Siberian coast two years
ago, are alive and well up there.
Mrs. SARAH JACKSON, wife of Andrew
jackson, and mistress of the White House
during President Jackson's second term
died at the " Hermitage" near Nashville
last week, aged eighty-one years.
THE Atlanta DdUy capital has created a
sensation by demanding that jefferson
Davis should be invited to the Piedmont
exposition, to be held there in October, and
that by his hand President Cleveland should
be welcomed.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has received retainer
of $1,000 to represent the Chicago dressed
beef interests in their battle with the rail
roads before the interstate commerce com.
mission. Ex-senator Conkling will appear
for the railroads.
IT is probable that the loss on the rice
crop will exceed 100000, the estimate
made two weeks ago. Discouraging news
continues to come in from the flooded dis
tricts in lower Carolina along the Santee
and Savannah rivers.
JUDGE POTTER of the New York supreme
court has granted stay of proceedings in
Jacob Sharp'S case, to allow an appeal tC
the general term. This decision has been
expected for several weeks, although the
New York press has warned Judge Potter
that he is making great mistake.
A PAssENGER-TRAIN on the Peoria, Decatur
Il Evansville railroad was deraied last
week by train-wreckers. 1t was running al
the rate of forty miles an hour, but the en-.
tire train remained on grade and came to a
standstill, after humping on the ties two
hundred feet. The purpose was probably
robbery.
REV. MOSES ROGERS, one of the oldest
Methodist ministers in America died at
Fresh Pond, New York, Thursday. He
was ninety-three years old and had been
preaching seventy years. Mr.. Rogers was a
direct descendant of John Rogers, who
was burned as a martyr in England in the
sixteenth century.
The executive committee of the new po
litical party recently organized under the
name of " The American Party" last week
issued an official call for national conven-
ton in Philadelphia September IL and H. II
calls upon all American citizens of whatever
party who sympathze with the sentiments
and favor the political objects of the new
party to attend to complete the organization
and promote, among others, the following
specific objects; % To emphasize and per
petuate the sentiment of America fol-
Americans; (2) the restriction of immi
grafton; C9 thorough revision of the
naturalization laws: az the reserving OF
American lands for American citizens only
(5) the protection of Americans in all theil
rights on land and sea in all parts of the
world: 90 to restrict and guard the cleo
tive franchise; % to abolish polygamy in
the United States Immediately and en-
tirely; (S) to enact and enforce such law as
will tend to eradicate intemperance; (O to
develop the resources of the country by a
wise system of internal improvements; 90
to protect and promote the American sys-
TEN of free common schools; QD to adjust
the relations of labor and capital on per
manent basis of equity and justice.